June and John 4K 2025

One day, John, a boring bank clerk who lives a boring life, meets a girl with pink hair on the subway. From that moment on, his whole world is turned upside down. Or rather, it takes on its only correct position.

But wait, to complete the picture, let me tell you a little about John. Here he is on his way to the office, staring drearily out the taxi window. From the sidewalk, he is drawn to night butterflies and a night superhero: miniskirts give way to a Batman costume, but the guy pays no attention to either of them. Here he is sitting in the accounting department with the dejected look of Tyler Durden on minimum wage, as if he is about to do something crazy. However, this guy is too patient to do anything, so literally the whole world — that's the feeling you get — wipes its feet on him, from his boss, which is often inevitable, to the parking lot security guard, which is actually unnecessary and much more unpleasant than the whims of his superiors. Although the poor guy goes through so many humiliating misadventures that by the 20th minute of the film, you start praying for the Lord's wrath to strike, so that the poor guy will at least smash something, even a tattered trash can...

June and John has an emotional and at times deliberately superficial, almost fantastical plot. This is to ensure that it is not like other love stories where a girl changes a guy's life abruptly and suddenly (from Love Actually to Sweet November). And to serve as the most vivid reminder possible: it is very important to come to your senses in time and not waste your life on commercial breaks between identical episodes of an endless series about a job that is not your dream job.

John (like many of us) seems to have only briefly glimpsed real life, where there is love, relationships, and other things besides the hope that someday he will get a promotion and the parking lot jerk will stop bullying him. Well, June will teach him to swim in that very real life that we all hope to live while we are drowning in illusions.

Admittedly, Besson's film is terribly frivolous and beautiful. Like the main character, it invents ways to have fun on the fly. This hour-and-a-half-long adventure seems to bring the hot season closer (the girl's name is the first month of summer) and reminds us that a boring life is a personal choice.